Norway have qualified for their first World Cup since 1998, and the first thing they did was ship in their own cheese, fish and 6,000 oranges. A touching show of faith in the American food supply. Start with the cheese, since they hauled 116 kilograms of it across the Atlantic. Dairy in the United States can come from cows injected with a growth hormone called rBST, which has been banned across Europe for years and does not even have to appear on the label over here. Norwegian cows never go near it, so the players would sooner bring their own. The fish follows much the same logic. A good deal of American tuna is treated with carbon monoxide, sold to the trade under the lovely name "tasteless smoke," which fixes that bright red colour and keeps it looking fresh long after it has quietly stopped being so. Europe banned the practice in 2003, while America still permits it. Then the oranges, all 6,000 of them, because the US happily lets growers spray the skins with Citrus Red 2, a dye the World Health Organisation's cancer agency calls a possible carcinogen, all so a slightly green orange can pass for a ripe one on the shelf. Europe will not let it anywhere near food. So when a side with one shot at a World Cup takes a long look at the local cheese, fish and fruit and flies in a tonne of their own instead, you can understand how they got there. A ringing endorsement of American food, obviously.

El tráfico es en sí mismo un modo de arquitectura hostil.

Millencolin - No Cigar youtu.be/OChjVLHlkVE?si=9Qj7…

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Jugadores valuados en 100 millones de euros no pudieron anotarle a Vozinha, un electricista de 40 años que mandó su solicitud a la Federación de Cabo Verde a través de LinkedIn. España no pudo derrotar a la selección de un archipiélago que ni siquiera tiene campos de fútbol.

A man whose family are killed by the israelis in Gaza, says sorry to be boring, but while you’re watching the World Cup, we are being killed

Caifanes - Cuéntame Tu Vida (Letra Oficial) youtu.be/KlfftQ1jUeA?si=mQT4…

Tomás Vega, ingeniero formado en el MIT, ha creado un dispositivo que permite a las personas con parálisis controlar teléfonos, tabletas y ordenadores solo con la lengua. El dispositivo se coloca en el paladar y funciona como un trackpad inalámbrico.

Pueden sublimar el carácter popular del futbol de un millón de maneras, pero lo cierto de lo cierto es que el futbol es un diseño colonial y mercantil. Es popular justamente porque alguien, cuyo interés no es el de resguardar las clases populares, así lo quiso –y así lo quiere.

Carl Jung, an underrated take on the fall of Rome

🐘 In Zimbabwe, the Akashinga Rangers an all-women anti-poaching unit help protect elephants and other wildlife 24/7

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

Japan fans brought their own blue garbage bags to a World Cup match. No stadium rule required it. They brought the bags from home. They do this at every tournament, in every stadium, win or lose. Nearly 80 years of deliberate education built this habit. Tokyo, with 13 million residents, is one of the cleanest megacities on the planet. It achieved that after most of its public trash cans were removed following a 1995 terror attack. The bins never fully came back. The streets stayed spotless anyway. The explanation starts at age 6, long before anyone thinks about football. In Japanese schools, students handle all the daily cleaning themselves. Four days a week after lunch, they spend 20 minutes scrubbing classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms in a session called "Soji." The broader program is "Tokkatsu," meaning "special activities," and Japan built it into the national curriculum in 1947 while rebuilding the education system after World War II. Over 12 years, a student completes nearly 2,000 of these sessions. The lesson is direct: if you use a space, you take responsibility for it. The stadium section belongs to you for 90 minutes. Leave it better. At the 2018 World Cup, Japan fans cleaned the Rostov Arena stands after losing 3-2 to Belgium in the final seconds. They had been 2-0 up. The team's dressing room, also spotless, held a note that said "thank you" in Russian. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the dressing room had 11 origami cranes and a thank-you note in Japanese and Arabic. Grief doesn't suspend the behavior. A camera doesn't trigger it. Nearly 2,000 cleaning sessions completed before age 18 makes it automatic. Japan has run this system since 1947. The stadium section is just a classroom with 70,000 seats.

🇯🇵😂 The most Japanese celebration ever After Japan’s 2–2 draw against the Netherlands, fans rushed onto Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing to celebrate. For exactly 40 seconds. Why? Because the pedestrian light was green. As soon as it turned red, everyone stopped celebrating and obediently moved back to the sidewalks. Even in the middle of a spontaneous football celebration, the Japanese still refused to break traffic rules.

Fox paid $485 million for the rights to broadcast this World Cup. The New York Times put the fair market value at $1 to $1.5 billion. The hydration break is how Fox gets its money's worth. FIFA announced mandatory 3-minute pauses midway through each half of all 104 World Cup 2026 matches, not just hot ones. That includes games inside climate-controlled domed stadiums with roofs. The announcement came at a World Broadcaster Meeting in Washington DC. FIFA said the decision was made after consultation with coaches and broadcasters. A few months later, FIFA gave broadcasters the green light to sell ads during the pauses. Fox gets 2 minutes and 10 seconds per break, starting 20 seconds after the whistle and ending 30 seconds before play resumes. Across all 104 games, that's 832 potential ad slots that didn't exist in soccer before this tournament. Fox and Telemundo project a combined $850 million in ad revenue from the 2026 World Cup. The player welfare argument is also real. Argentina's Enzo Fernandez said he felt "dizzy" in "very dangerous" temperatures during last summer's Club World Cup in the US, where some games approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. FIFA had reason to act. But it applied those breaks to every match regardless of conditions, and opened a commercial window that makes this World Cup more ad-friendly than any before it. Fox proved the point on day one. In the opener between Mexico and South Africa, Fox missed the 30-second return window FIFA mandated. The ball was already in play when the network came back from commercials. Coca-Cola, a top-tier global FIFA partner for decades, runs the hydration stations on the field. That same 3-minute pause serves three commercial interests at once: the field sponsor, Fox's ad revenue, and Fox's streaming subscribers. The 2030 World Cup goes to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The 2034 tournament lands in Saudi Arabia. Both regions see extreme summer heat. FIFA has not confirmed whether the pauses will outlast this summer's tournament. But $850 million in new advertising inventory tends to answer that question on its own.

“I was burning while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wes Parker - Dinosaur Park (Official Music Video) youtu.be/9Zvygk7tUnI?si=zcdB…

Levi’s is now using this “wrapped” logo as their Instagram profile pic 😄